Flour sifter



May 18 1926.

F. M. BUNDREN ,FLOUR, SIFTER Filed April 50 75M. BU ndren INVEN TOR.

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FRANCIS 1H. BUHDREN, OF EL Z ASO, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH TO I-I.

BAILEY AND ONE-"EQURTH TU P. I11. BAILEY.

FLOUR SIFTEB.

Application filed. April 30, 1925.

This invention relates to improvements in flour sitters used in the sitting of flour in making bread and the like, and has for its principal object to provide a simple, p 'actical and inexpensive device of this nature which will reduce all lumps of flour to a finely powdered condition, separate any undesirable foreign matter thereil rom and perform this operation easily and quickly.

Vith these objects in view the invention will be better understood by reference to the following description, taken in connec tion with the accompanying drawings, formin part hereof and in which Figure 1 is a side elevatioual view of a flour sitter embodying the invention, with parts broken away to show the interior arrangement.

Figure 2 is a top view.

Figures 3, 4 and 5 are enlarged detail views of the movable parts, disassembled for clearer illustration; and

Figure 6 is an enlarged, detail fragmentary view or a portion or the movable parts, showing their connection.

Continuing; the description of the invention and referring to its various parts more in detail, 1 denotes the body of the sitter with a handle 2, sinliciently large to permit a good ot' the hand.

Across the bottomof the body is a screen mesh 5). connnonly used in devices of this sort.

Within the body 1 ot the siitt r and disposed across the screen mesh 3 is a loop of wire The loop is first formed in the wire,

nvardly at an angle to the loop, 2, to provide a shank This 7 ion then twisted and tar; ed at right angles inwardly to :i'orm an eve (3. then the end the wire 7 is directed urnvard and pivoted in the side ot the body 1 at 8 and the shank is pivoted also at its lower portion adjacent the loop 4. Thus when the loop Serial No. 26,861.

is in normal inoperative position as indicated by full lines in Figure 2, the eye 6 will lie just within the vertical plane of the loop. The loop, it wil be noticed, when in normal position is at one side of the body 1.

Arranged within the body 1 and on a line with the handle 2 is a spring member 10 fastened to the body at the point 11 and directed part way around the inner periph- P of the body by a loop 12 to stabilize th spring. The opposite end 13 is passed through the eye 6.

The means for moving the loop or agitator *1 across the wire mesh 3 is a member ll with e ed e-"tremity 15, this eye being connected with the eye 6. This meniher 1% has a age ring 16 formed on its outer end.

The operation of the device is as follows: he hand grasps the handle 2 and one finger -s pass d through the ring 16 to simultaneously pull the agitator loop i across the wire mesh 3 and contract the spring meinbe 10-shown in dotted lines in Figures 1 and 2. Obviously, releasing the pull on the ring 16 will move the agitator loop to reverse position.

il hat is claimed is:

A device of the character described co1nprising in con'ibiuation a body portion havin a handle. a toraminous bottom in said body, an agitator arranged to oscillate horiz'zontall v and in contact v th said bot tom. means to actuate .id agitator, springmember pivoted at s i ttoni nt near the ho extending and I. 1.1 V :42 M (HUS bilfilebi. .sa operative atta nea whereby in r ot said ll cause agitatron the material to he sitter a point Oi rally of the body. in testin'iony whereof I have shined my name to this specification.

FRANCES M BUNDREN. 

